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40 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5.) A. 1877 QUEBEC DISTRICT. Steamer "Ranger," run into by the Norwegian barque " Rosa," off Saint Lawi ence Point, Island of Orleans. The steamer was run ashore and sunk in 13 feet water. The crew got off in the boats. The accident occurred on the 3rd June Steamer " Voyageur," on the 4th July, when running a raft ashore at Platon, grounded on a rock. She filled. The engine was taken out and hull floated off. Steam ferry " Worth, " burned to the water's edge while lying at Coutures wharf on the 4th September. Some of the crew badly burned. In the same month, Louis Pagina, engineer of the tug steamer "Asilda," when screwing down the check valve cover on the boiler, one of the bolts in the cover broke and the cover forced off by the pressure in the boiler allowed the hot water to escape, which scalded him to death. MARITIME PROVINCES. Steamer " Dominion," of Yarmouth, N. S., broke her screw on a sunken log in the harbour. Steamer " Neptune," of Sydney, C. B., on the 16th October, on her passage up the Bras d'Or Lake, about five miles inside the entrance to the lake, broke the pin in the forward end of the walking beam, bent the fusion rod and links, and burst the cylinder into pieces. It was blowing a gale at the time. The steamer was anchored and the passengers landed in safety. The steamer was taken to Sydney for repairs. BRITISH COLUMBIA. No accidents are reported in this District from defective boilers. Steamer " Ella White" struck a sunken rock in Howe Sound, knocking one of the three blades off her screw. She reached Victoria where a new screw was got. The accident occurred in February last. Steamer " Gertrude," on her way down Stickeen River, struck a rock going through the Grand Rapids, making three large holes in her hull. A Russian named Labard, in his attempt to take a line from the steamer to the shore, was carried away by the current and drowned. The steamer succeeded in reaching Port Wrangle, where she was beached and repaired. In July, the steamer " Grappler," heavily loaded with freight, ran ashore on Darcy Island and filled. She was floated off, beached, and made all right. Steamer " Beaver," in July, ran hard on a rock in Howe Sound. She was got off, but leaking so badly that she had to be beached at Deep Cove, Howe Sound. Pore-foot knocked off, and part of bow damaged. She was put on the ways at Victoria and repaired. In the Montreal district there is a complaint from the owners of the steamer " National," against Pierre Lariviere, second-class chief engineer, of drunkenness and neglect of duty. Also by Captain Glendinning, of the steamer " C. T. Brydges," accusing the engineer, John Gazette, of inconrpetence, drunkenness and abusive language. At the complaint of Mr. Inspector Moneilley, Wm. Anderson, engineer, of Port Colborne, Ont., was brought before a Magistrate at Clifton and fined $200 for acting as engineer of a tug steamer without license to do so. The fine has not, I believe, been paid, and Anderson is at large and applying for a renewal of certificate. In October Mr. Meneilley also instituted proceedings against Henry Taylor, of Chatham, for a similar offence to Anderson's, namely: running a tug, as engineer, without a license. Owing to " defective information " in the proceedings, this case was not sustained by the Magistrate. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, SAMUEL RISLEY, Chairman of the Board of Steamboat Inspection. 6